Re: Register.com DNS hosting issues

2009-04-04 Thread Peter Beckman
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Charles Wyble wrote: This is probably a good time to remind the uninitiated to have some secondary DNS with a totally separate company if your DNS is that important to you. Preferably with a provider that announces out of multiple ASN :) ATT and Akami both provide good

Re: Register.com DNS hosting issues

2009-04-04 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Peter Beckman beck...@angryox.com wrote: On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Charles Wyble wrote: This is probably a good time to remind the uninitiated to have some secondary DNS with a totally separate company if your DNS is that important to you. Preferably with a

Re: Register.com DNS hosting issues

2009-04-04 Thread Florian Weimer
* Peter Beckman: I can highly recommend DNSmadeEasy.com. Inexpensive, Anycasted, always fast and reliable. Good for primary and/or secondary, IMO, though it is sage advice to use two different providers if you are super ultra serious about never being down. Or put some of your DNS

Re: Register.com DNS hosting issues

2009-04-04 Thread Randy Bush
IMHO, fate-sharing as a strategy for increasing availability is somewhat underrated. from rfc 2182 3.3. A Myth Exploded An argument is occasionally made that there is no need for the domain name servers for a domain to be accessible if the hosts in the domain are unreachable. This

Re: Register.com DNS hosting issues

2009-04-04 Thread Florian Weimer
* Randy Bush: IMHO, fate-sharing as a strategy for increasing availability is somewhat underrated. from rfc 2182 Randy, I didn't write, don't keep off-site name servers. I wrote, keep on-site name servers, even if you pay for off-site name service. 3.3. A Myth Exploded + While

Re: Register.com DNS hosting issues

2009-04-04 Thread Randy Bush
But looking back at incidents such as the Zonelabs/Abovenet issue, your advice is correct for the network we have today. as that rfc is over a decade old, i am not optimistic that change is neigh sigh. and it is amusing to see ;; ANSWER SECTION: harvard.edu.10794 IN NS

Re: Register.com DNS hosting issues

2009-04-04 Thread Florian Weimer
* Randy Bush: But looking back at incidents such as the Zonelabs/Abovenet issue, your advice is correct for the network we have today. as that rfc is over a decade old, i am not optimistic that change is neigh sigh. DNSSEC obscures quite a few failures which can hit secondaries. I think it

Register.com DNS hosting issues

2009-04-03 Thread Jeffrey Negro
For anyone trying to troubleshoot any strange resolution or page loading issues, Register.com is apparently having a massive DNS hosting outage that has been going on since 2 days ago, and is still continuing. I only found out because our monitoring was complaining about one single domain on and

Re: Register.com DNS hosting issues

2009-04-03 Thread Matt Baldwin
Yep, we're seeing issues with mail delivery to any domain that has their zone hosted by register.com. You can follow the action on twitter: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=register.com Various reports that some of the register.com support staff is denying issues, while others aren't, while

RE: Register.com DNS hosting issues

2009-04-03 Thread Jeffrey Negro
mailto:jeichm...@billtrust.com From: Dennis Burgess - LTI [mailto:dmburg...@linktechs.net] Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 3:39 PM To: Jeffrey Negro Subject: Re: Register.com DNS hosting issues Thanks for the update :) Guess they did not get a ETA time

RE: Register.com DNS hosting issues

2009-04-03 Thread Clinton Popovich
-Original Message- From: Jeffrey Negro [mailto:jne...@billtrust.com] Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 3:42 PM To: Dennis Burgess - LTI Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Register.com DNS hosting issues No ETA given to me, just the stock line of We apologize.. blah blah... as soon as possible

Register.com DNS hosting issues

2009-04-03 Thread Clinton Popovich
Communications -Original Message- From: Jeffrey Negro [mailto:jne...@billtrust.com] Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 3:42 PM To: Dennis Burgess - LTI Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Register.com DNS hosting issues No ETA given to me, just the stock line of We apologize.. blah blah... as soon

Re: Register.com DNS hosting issues

2009-04-03 Thread Jack Bates
Jeffrey Negro wrote: No ETA given to me, just the stock line of We apologize.. blah blah... as soon as possible.. blah blah. Do you normally give an ETA concerning DOS issues? Jack

RE: Register.com DNS hosting issues

2009-04-03 Thread Jeffrey Negro
-Original Message- From: Jack Bates [mailto:jba...@brightok.net] Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 3:52 PM To: Jeffrey Negro Cc: Dennis Burgess - LTI; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Register.com DNS hosting issues Jeffrey Negro wrote: No ETA given to me, just the stock line of We apologize.. blah

Re: Register.com DNS hosting issues

2009-04-03 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Clinton Popovich crpop...@nauticom.net wrote: Looks like a routing issue to their DNS servers from here. traceroute to DNS020.C.REGISTER.COM (216.21.235.20), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 c28.134.nauticom.net

Re: Register.com DNS hosting issues

2009-04-03 Thread Seth Mattinen
Jeffrey Negro wrote: No ETA given to me, just the stock line of We apologize.. blah blah... as soon as possible.. blah blah. This is probably a good time to remind the uninitiated to have some secondary DNS with a totally separate company if your DNS is that important to you. ~Seth

RE: Register.com DNS hosting issues

2009-04-03 Thread Clinton Popovich
Subject: Re: Register.com DNS hosting issues -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Clinton Popovich crpop...@nauticom.net wrote: Looks like a routing issue to their DNS servers from here. traceroute to DNS020.C.REGISTER.COM (216.21.235.20), 64 hops max, 40

Re: Register.com DNS hosting issues

2009-04-03 Thread Matt Baldwin
Looks like we're seeing DNS queries succeeding again. Hopefully this time they'll stay up. :) -matt On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Paul Ferguson fergdawgs...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Clinton Popovich

Re: Register.com DNS hosting issues

2009-04-03 Thread Charles Wyble
Seth Mattinen wrote: Jeffrey Negro wrote: No ETA given to me, just the stock line of We apologize.. blah blah... as soon as possible.. blah blah. This is probably a good time to remind the uninitiated to have some secondary DNS with a totally separate company if your DNS is that important

Re: Register.com DNS hosting issues

2009-04-03 Thread Jared Mauch
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 01:31:33PM -0700, Charles Wyble wrote: Seth Mattinen wrote: Jeffrey Negro wrote: No ETA given to me, just the stock line of We apologize.. blah blah... as soon as possible.. blah blah. This is probably a good time to remind the uninitiated to have some secondary

Re: Register.com DNS hosting issues

2009-04-03 Thread Randy Bush
This is probably a good time to remind the uninitiated to have some secondary DNS with a totally separate company if your DNS is that important to you. someone should write an rfc on that randy

Re: Register.com DNS hosting issues

2009-04-03 Thread Jorge Amodio
someone should write an rfc on that why not read the one you wrote, it's just 12 years old cheers jorge

Re: Register.com DNS hosting issues

2009-04-03 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 17:38:43 -0500 Jorge Amodio jmamo...@gmail.com wrote: someone should write an rfc on that why not read the one you wrote, it's just 12 years old We don't read. Very few system developers are familiar with work done outside of their own project.